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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What baseball player was the hero of Vadim Kilakov, the Spooner's catcher at Mendeleyev?
(a) Pedro Martinez.
(b) Gary Carter.
(c) Robin Ventura.
(d) Roger Clemens.

2. Why was Likhachev sentenced to a five-year term in a labor camp?
(a) For suggesting that ethnic languages be left alone.
(b) For suggesting the restoration of the letter "yat" to the Russian language.
(c) For writing a book about language.
(d) For writing a book about literature.

3. What does one Eveni descendant say the Soviets did to his people?
(a) Destroyed their culture.
(b) Helped them become traders.
(c) Helped them become farmers.
(d) Committed genocide.

4. How did the Baltic republics win their independence?
(a) Execution of Party leaders.
(b) Stubornness.
(c) Violence.
(d) Intervention from the West.

5. In what city did the Party cancel the May Day parade in 1990?
(a) Leningrad.
(b) Moscow.
(c) St. Petersburg.
(d) Irkutsk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who became president of Czechoslovakia?

2. How long after Gorbachev's 1989 visit to Berlin did the Berlin wall collapse?

3. Who came from Iowa to coach baseball?

4. During what years had Lithuania been a free country?

5. What does Remnick compare Memorial to?

(see the answer key)

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